- Old bronze coin - Small price paid for thoughts - Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in
combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which
one thousand weight ten pounds. - An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the
twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four
farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation
d. (the initial of denarius). - Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver. - Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny. - See Denarius.